Julieta Lemaitre (2016)
Social & Legal Studies
This article examines internally displaced women’s narratives of rebuilding their life after displacement, focusing on questions of moral agency and community governance. The data come from a 3-year research project (2010–2013) with internally displaced women in Colombia, during the emergence of a new transitional justice regime. The article finds in internally displaced women’s narratives of […]
Malin Solheim Moldestad (2016)
Moldestad’s MA thesis I løpet av to år gjekk Norge frå å vere ei sinke når det gjelder transpersonar sine rettar til å bli eit føregangsland med diskrimineringsvern grunna kjønnsidentitet og kjønnsuttrykk og verdas mest liberale lov om endring av juridisk kjønn. Oppgåvas målsetnad er å undersøkje kva som var bakgrunnen for den nye lova […]
Maja Janmyr (2016)
How are global human rights localised in authoritarian societies? How and what human rights discourses are mobilised by indigenous peoples to further their demands? Building upon original fieldwork among Nubian activists in Egypt, Maja Janmyr, Steering Committee Member and Postdoctoral Fellow, explores the complexities regarding human rights framing through a discussion of recognition of Nubian indigeneity. The […]
Bergallo P, Ramón Michel A (2016)
International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics Law
For most of the 20th Century, restrictive abortion laws were in place in continental Latin America. In recent years, reforms have caused a liberalizing shift, supported by constitutional decisions of the countries’ high courts. The present article offers an overview of the turn toward more liberal rules and the resolution of abortion disputes by reference […]
Ivar Kolstad & Arne Wiig (2016)
Democratization Vol. 23 , Iss. 7, 2016
While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. This article attempts to address the endogeneity of democracy by exploiting the thesis that democracies seldom go to war against each other. We instrument for democracy using a dummy variable reflecting whether a country […]
Tina Søreide, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norway (2016)
ISBN: 978 1 78471 597 7
The author addresses the role of criminal justice in anti-corruption by investigating assumptions in the classic law and economics approach and debating the underlying criteria for an efficient criminal justice system. Drawing on real life challenges from the policy world, the book combines insights from the literature with updated knowledge about practical law enforcement constraints. […]
Ida Juhasz (University of Bergen) and Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen) (2016)
European Journal of Social Work
This paper examines the significant obstacles that child protection workers in four countries, England, Finland, Norway and the USA (CA), believe they would face at their workplace, in a case of a child removal decision. There are many potential barriers employees may experience in their work practice, either external factors, organizational factors or individual factors, […]
Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen) and June Thoburn (University of East Anglia) (2016)
Children and Youth Services Review
The English language term ‘permanence’ is increasingly used in high income countries as a ‘short-hand’ translation for a complex set of aims around providing stability and family membership for children who need child welfare services and out-of-home care. From a scrutiny of legislative provisions, court judgments, government documents and a public opinion survey on child […]
Jonathan Dickens (University of East Anglia), Jill Berrick (UC Berkely), Tarja Pösö (University of Tampere) and Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen) (2016)
This paper draws on an international comparative study of social work decision making in cases that are on the edge of care order proceedings, involving child protection workers from Finland, Norway, England and the USA (California). It focuses on workers’ responses in an online questionnaire to questions about the use of independent experts to inform […]
B, Camila Gianella, Brian Citro, Evan Lyon, et. al (2016)
Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 18. No. 1.
This special section of Health and Human Rights Journal focuses much-needed attention on tuberculosis (TB) and human rights—particularly the right to health. Even as TB has surpassed HIV as the top infectious disease killer in the world and the global threat from multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) continues to grow, approaches to fighting the disease remain primarily […]
